When last we left our rich cousins and their scammers, Tim helped Pai patch things up with his controlling family.
This earns him the privilege of blow-drying Pai’s hair
After some staring, Tim goes to North’s to sleep on the couch. He tells U there is “too much chemistry,” and sex would complicate an already complicated situation.
U suggests a rival could appear, and I sigh, because I know where this is going.
Anyway, Tim is focused on the long game: Marriage. When he signed that marriage certificate with Pai, it felt right. They are supposed to be family.
But neither of them is sure about marrying the same person twice.
Still, that night U measures a sleeping North’s finger with his own.
What’s this? Pai receives flowers, but they aren’t from Tim?
Kuea sent them! And he visits Pai immediately after, so why didn’t he just bring them? Whatever.
Tim’s helpful lawyer friend suggests that Pai is feeling insecure, so Tim needs to make the first move. Meanwhile, throwing a tennis ball at work leads to Keau piggypacking Pai. It’s dumb, but it gives Tim motivation to return to Pai’s workplace.
But he no longer has a pass! Grandpa arrives and allows him inside. In the painfully quiet elevator, Tim thanks Grandpa and apologizes. Grandpa wants more than apologies. He wants to meet Tim’s real family. Tim is relieved.
Tim makes it to Pai’s office, but Kuea is about to take Pai to a work dinner. No Tims allowed. North and U are allowed, though.
But there is No Work Discussed at the Work Dinner
Instead, Keau quizzes North about how he forgave U, then suggests U propose. It’s a lot.
After dinner, Kuea takes Pai home, and Tim listens through the solid-looking front door as Kuea confesses.
Tim knocks on the door so he can accuse Kuea of taking advantage of drunk Pai. Kuea points out that Tim is just an ex. Pai asks Kuea to leave, but once he’s gone, Tim apologizes. He knows he didn’t have the right to interrupt that way.
Pai doesn’t see Tim the way Kuea sees Tim. He never stopped loving Tim, but he’s still scared of trusting him. Tim says he might need to spend his whole life proving that Pai can trust him. In the meantime, can they get back together?
He promises he’ll respect Pai’s decision, and whatever he decides, he will still be a good friend.
U stands near a ring store and tells Tim he wants to propose
To North, not Tim. Tim can’t help but look at the rings too.
Next, U goes to Pai for permission to marry North. Pai proves he’s grown as a character, saying North can make his own decisions. But if North says yes, Pai will talk to Grandpa.
U sets up an elaborate proposal at the scam house, with everyone there to celebrate. North quickly says yes. Also, U bought this house with a loan from Pai. Awww.
Next, Pai talks to Kuea alone. Tim thinks Pai said yes, and Pai reminds him that he promised to be a good friend. Tim swears he will once he calms down. Heh.
But of course, Pai turned down Kuea. He’ll give Tim an answer after he meets his parents.
Suddenly, Tim and his parents are meeting Grandpa and Pai
Grandpa bluntly tells them that Tim was a con artist who scammed Pai. Upset, they immediately leave. Tim goes after them to explain how he did it because they were struggling. But Tim’s parents would rather struggle than have him do something like that.
Tim cries and apologizes to his parents. They forgive him. Family group hug!
Tim’s parents are ready to kneel on the floor to get forgiveness from Pai’s Grandpa. It’s not Pai, but Grandpa who lets them off the hook. If Pai wants to give Tim a chance, he won’t get in the way.
Tim’s family tells him to sell the house already.
When it’s just the two of them, Tim promises not to lie again, and Pai says he doesn’t believe everything he’s said, but he’ll give him another chance
He wants to get back together!
Tim is thrilled, Pai wants to take it slow, and we get a sweet hug. And… kissing!
Our benevolent patriarch agrees to let U marry North!
There’s some silliness with hugs, but it’s nice to see Pai getting the love he needs from his family.
Tim agreed to go slow, but even as he clips Pia’s fingernails, he’s thinking about rings and marriage.
When U and North meet with the family fortune teller, Pai is also thinking about marriage. The fortune teller says he said not to rush into it, and the timing has come and passed. He says a lot more, but that’s what Pai focuses on.
But he’s not planning to marry Tim again anyway.
North is exhausted from preparing for a giant, ridiculous, rich family wedding. He suggests that Pai get married on the same day, probably to take pressure off himself.
Pai swears he’s not thinking about it, but North guesses he’s scared of what the fortune teller said. When it comes to the fortune teller, North believes the good and not the bad. Pai seems startled that he can do that, which is cute.
But Tim keeps being domestic and amazing
Taking care of Pai’s useless cousin, cooking for them, and drawing a bath for Pai. It all gets Pai brooding while soaking in the tub.
After, he sits in bed and tells his beating heart he doesn’t want to get married. Tim overhears, but pretends he didn’t.
Meanwhile, North is so tired he leans against U, says he no longer wants to get married, then passes out.
Tim has everyone over for an uncomfortable dinner before he sells his place. He and Pai aren’t talking. When North and U try to get them to talk, Tim shares that U isn’t talking about something bothering him either. This gets U in trouble with North.
At home, North explains he doesn’t want to get married because he hates preparing for the huge ceremony. He realizes that’s not how U took it, and reassures him he still wants to marry him.
Meanwhile, Tim finally asks Pai what he wants if he doesn’t want to become family. Pai feels what they have is good. Why does Tim want to get married?
Tim shows Pai his vision board of their life together. They would live and work together, and he would take care of Pai. And he would know that Pai belongs entirely to him.
Pai still worries things will go wrong, but Tim promises that while things won’t be perfect, he’ll try his best.
Tim has, thankfully, bought a new ring to propose with. Pai accepts, and we get sweet kissing. Oh, and more.
Pre-Wedding Day photoshoot with the whole family
Man, marriage is a lot of work. Anyway, the family is at some huge estate, and U and North look great in their suits. North decides he wants to get THEN and THERE.
Their benevolent controlling patriarch allows it and asks Pai if he wants to get married too. That’s a yes.
Our two couples are very sweet together. U is thankful for the family he never thought he’d get. North decides to record a message to himself in the future, then wants the others to each record one too.
And it’s wedding time! Secretary cries, and I’m happy to see fake mom there too. Our couples give their vows, and we see their happy futures of working together, paying off loansharks, camping, all that good stuff.
Kissing! Everyone is happy!
Sometime later, Pai is cutely annoyed to get a duck poster from the master. And there’s a big family portrait with everyone.
We flashback to what Pai and Tim recorded at the wedding. Pai reminded himself that everyone loves him and not to take them for granted. Tim tells himself to love Pai right, take care of him, his family, and never to hurt Pai again.
Then Tim gives Pai lots of cheek kisses, picking him up to give more.
That was all very cute
But also a little anticlimactic.
I kept waiting for Tim’s history as a con artist to be dealt with, but it wasn’t. There was all this build-up to meeting his parents, and they were just some nice people. Then he easily agreed to sell the house that had been his motivation for everything. All this without him explaining anything to Pai on screen.
I would have happily skipped the pointless Kuea stuff to give any of that some screentime.
Meanwhile, U’s character arc had everything Tim’s was missing. It’s like they had more time to write his scenes.
On the other hand, I’m grateful that I never had to watch a cry fest. One of my biggest pet peeves is stories that start light and fun and end with episodes of nothing but crying.
And I liked the tactic Tim took with Pai. He knew that Pai had felt alone and unsupported, and it was worse after Tim’s actions got him disinherited. Rather than leaving him alone, he became an active part of Pai’s emotional recovery.
The fact that Junior and Mark are playing these underwritten characters saved their part of the story for me. I like seeing them together. Thanks to that, I can see myself watching it again.
It might even be a better watch the second time, because I won’t be waiting for things to happen that don’t. Instead, I’ll enjoy watching the marriages and divorces and marriages.
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